NYPD caught dumping gloves, masks from Ebola site into street garbage can (VIDEO)

New York City police officers working around the Harlem apartment of Craig Spencer, the doctor who tested positive for the Ebola virus on Thursday, were caught discarding their protective gloves and masks in a street-corner trash bin.

Accordingto the New York Post, the NYPD
cordoned off the entire block in front of Spencer’s building on
W. 147th Street. Authorities inside the apartment were reportedly
wearing hazmat suits, so its possible that the gear-discarding
officers were only on patrol outside the building.

Nevertheless, thevideo clipfirst posted by the
Daily Mail caused a stir on Twitter.

Meanwhile, the Brooklyn bowling alley Dr. Spencer reportedly
attended on Wednesday evening was closed down due to Ebola
worries on Thursday. Owners of The Gutter
said in a statement a show scheduled for Friday night is
cancelled for now.

“We are working with the
NYC Health Department to have the bar cleaned and sanitized under
their supervision and expect to be open sometime today after that
is completed. Doctors advising the Health Department have told us
that our staff and customers were at no risk.”

Spencer, who this month had worked for Doctors Without Borders in
the Ebola-ravaged West African nation of Guinea, fell ill with a
fever on Thursday and was rushed
to a Manhattan hospital where he was put in isolation. A
preliminary test showed Spencer was positive for the virus, which
has killed around 4,000 people in West Africa and one person,
Thomas Eric Duncan, in the US.

Dr. Spencer was reportedly screened for the virus at John F.
Kennedy International Airport upon his return to the US from
Guinea, as all travelers from West Africa have been checked in
recent weeks. He “did not have a fever or other symptoms of
illness” at the time, according to the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.

In Washington, a new report released Thursday depicted a federal
government that might struggle with an Ebola outbreak should it
happen in the nation’s capital.

A new audit by the US Department of Homeland Security’s inspector
general found that 84 percent of thousands of stockpiled bottles
of hand sanitizer, saved in case of emergencies like an Ebola
outbreak in Washington, has expired.

John Roth, the department’s inspector general,
reported that the federal government had failed to
“adequately conduct a needs assessment,” and now much of
the safety equipment, including 16 million surgical masks, are
either out of date or worthless.

“DHS did not adequately conduct a needs assessment prior to
purchasing pandemic preparedness supplies and then did not
effectively manage its stockpile of pandemic personal protective
equipment and antiviral medical countermeasures,” Roth’s
50-page report stated.

The report found that 4,184 of the 4,982 bottles of hand
sanitizer in stockpile for a possible virus outbreak or pathogen
attack had expired, some as many as four years ago.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a
response to Bloomberg that the inspector general “has not
appropriately characterized [sic] a number of issues discussed in
the report, resulting in a misrepresentation of the information
and evidence that DHS program officials and subject matter
experts provided to the auditors.”